38 courses with the subject ANTH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Nature and scope of the field: method and theory, institutions of human beings in cross-cultural perspective, case studies. Preference to first and second year students. Juniors and seniors only with permission.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Participant-observation, interviewing, and other field research methods. Students will devise and conduct their own ethnographic research projects in a local community. Not open to first-year students. Crosslisted as SOCI 201.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3We study how business interests, scientists, and indigenous peoples think and engage with rainforests in radically different ways. Attentive to these differences, the course explores how rainforests are being destroyed by some groups and protected by others. Crosslisted as ENST 209 and LAMS 202.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the historical and contemporary causes of political, structural and systematic forms of violence in Latin America. Crosslisted as IREL 205 and LAMS 205.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableTopics related to current events/issues in anthropology.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary struggles for recognition and respect with an emphasis on Indigenous groups in Latin America and global governance. Crosslisted as IREL 208 and LAMS 208.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores environmental issues from around the world through scholarly readings in environmental anthropology. Students will also examine and practice the ethnographic methods that qualitative social scientists use to understand environmental phenomena. Not open to first-year students. Crosslisted as ENST 210.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3The anthropological analysis of religion and religious phenomena. The exploration of religious practices across the globe, including initiation, circumcision, death and funerary customs, spirit possession, sacrifice, pilgrimage and saint veneration.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores issues of gender and sexuality in South Asia, primarily India and Sri Lanka. Topics include marriage, family, life cycle, religion and nationalism. Crosslisted as WMST 232.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduction to diversity of contemporary Southeast Asia. Interdisciplinary perspectives on topics including politics, gender, religion, violence, and globalization.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the relationship between women and development, and an ideological, economic, political, and social enterprise. Crosslisted as WMST 251.
Offered Alternating Fall Semester; Lecture hours:3This course introduces students to the anthropology of contemporary Native North America. The goal is to teach students the theories, concepts, and methods used by anthropologists to investigate and explain the practices, beliefs, attitudes, and organization of Native peoples.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Using anthropological methods and theories as a guide, this course considers the form and content of human interactions with the environment in various regions of the world.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Social significance of food and eating. Taboos and ritual, food and identities, eating and political hierarchy, food and gender, global culture. Materialist and symbolic interpretations.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world. The contemporary tourism industry is an outgrowth of global capitalism. We will consider the specific relationships between tourists, toured, service providers, the state, and money.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:2Zombies have been a commentary on capitalism from their origins in West Africa and Haiti to today’s Hollywood movies. By comparing zombies in different cultural contexts, we will move beyond the usual Hollywood portrayals to consider how zombies emerged, spread and how they continue to be salient. You will leave this class with braaaaaaaaains.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the historical and contemporary theories in cultural anthropology; conceptualizations of culture, society, humankind; history and critical assessment of the concept of culture in anthropology. Crosslisted as ANTH 683.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Health and illness are not solely determined by an individual's biology. Their social determinants are the focus of this course. An understanding of health requires an investigation into the cultural meanings of the body, social relations, and the systems of power in which they are embedded.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the relationship between cultural and mental phenomena through a historical and cross-cultural perspective. What does the study of the mind as a cultural phenomena reveal about social life, conflicts and movements?.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course will examine wellbeing from an anthropological prospective. We will examine how wellbeing is defined, learned and practiced in different cultural settings across the world. We will also examine how wellbeing is experienced and expressed in rural Pennsylvania. Students will also learn theories and methods in anthropology.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This class examines cross-cultural perspectives on mental health and illness and will include topics such as anxiety disorders, substance abuse, homelessness and digital therapies.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This seminar examines the mental health and illness in cross-cultural perspective. Questioning commonly held notions about the nature of madness, the course focuses on how categories of deviance and abnormality are assigned to people.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Communication is central to how people perceive the environment, understand their relationship to it, and organize actions to change it. This course draws on concepts from linguistic anthropology, including discourse analysis, to examine debates about wildlife conservation, clean energy, eco-friendly products, environmental rights, and climate change. Crosslisted as ENST 320 and LING 320.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableTopics related to current events/issues in Anthropology.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3We examine the intersection of place, nature and culture throughout the world, including our own backyard. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor and ANTH 109 or GEOG 101.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableThe cross-cultural study of mental health and illness, gender and health, pharmaceuticals, and ritual healing, etc. This is a student led seminar.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This seminar examines the global impact of social, political, and economic processes on health and illness, emphasizing anthropological methods and theories. Topics include infectious diseases, mental health, disasters, ageing, reproductive health, and development aid.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:VariesEach student selects a project to be developed individually. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:VariesEach student selects a project to be developed individually. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:12; RepeatableReadings developed around the interest of individual students. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:12; RepeatableReadings developed around the interest of individual students. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An advanced seminar about the history of relationships between peoples, cultures, agricultural systems, and cuisines in Latin America. Topics will include: plant and animal domestication, pre-Columbian agriculture and environments, colonialism, land tenure regimes, food as global commodity, food aid and foreign policies, and contemporary gastropolitics.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the diversity of religious beliefs and practices in Africa. Religious change, syncretism, and ritual debates. Prerequisite: any anthropology course or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Focuses on selected topics of ethnographic and theoretical interest, varying from year to year according to the professor. This Culminating Experience course is open only to senior anthropology majors, and junior anthropology majors by permission. Prerequisite: ANTH 283 (may be taken concurrently) and permission of the instructor.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course explores the interface between inequality, crime, punishment and justice, with an emphasis on women in the United States; the course is populated by both Bucknell students and incarcerated students at a nearby women's prison. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as WMST 332.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableIndependent investigation in the field; formulation of hypotheses, construction of measuring instruments, data collection, data analysis, and test of hypotheses.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will provides an overview of the subdiscipline of Economic Anthropology. Topics include: non-monetary economies, gift economies, the rise of currency as a state project, the experiences of people in market economies and the intersections of capitalism with religion, gender, race and the environment.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An exploration of dance as cultural and political practice. Topics include: colonialism; the politics of tradition; gender, ethnicity, and nationalism; dance and violence. Not open to first-year students. Crosslisted as UNIV 371 and WMST 371.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
